Cocoy Mcccoy Quotes & Sayings

The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders. — Ralph Nader

FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use. — Edsger Dijkstra

Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular. — Saul Alinsky

Absolutely determined to ensure that Microsoft complies fully with the 2004 anti-trust decision. — Neelie Kroes

We will never cease our critique of those persons who distort the past, rewrite it, falsify it, who exaggerate the importance of one event and fail to mention some other; such a critique is proper (it cannot fail to be), but it doesn't count for much unless a more basic critique precedes it: a critique of human memory as such. For after all, what can memory actually do, the poor thing? It is only capable of retaining a paltry little scrap of the past, and no one knows why just this scrap and not some other one, since in each of us the choice occurs mysteriously, outside our will or our interests. We won't understand a thing about human life if we persist in avoiding the most obvious fact: that a reality no longer is what it was when it was; it cannot be reconstructed. Even the most voluminous archives cannot help. — Milan Kundera

Trying is just a noisy way of not doing something. — Ken Blanchard

What makes Capa a great photo journalist?" asks a reporter covering a 1998 retrospective of his work. "We see his own appetite for life, his mix of urgency with compassion . . . the artistic thrust of his photography always had more to do with its emotional pitch, which remained genuine and deeply felt." Or, in Capa's own words, a great picture "is a cut out of the whole event which will show more of the real truth of the affair to some one who was not there than the whole scene. — John Steinbeck

Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth. — Gautama Buddha

A little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory. — William Stanley Jevons

The movies and the parts I'm being offered are becoming better and better. — Vanessa Paradis

A family from Mexico who arrived here this morning, legally, has as much right to the American dream as the direct descendants of the founding fathers ... when the blood of the sons of immigrants and the grandsons of slaves fell on foreign fields, it was American blood. In it you could not read the ethnic particulars of the soldier who died next to you. He was an American. And when I think of how we learned this lesson, I wonder [how] we could have unlearned it. — Bob Dole

I find that the less emotion I put into life, the less the past seems to hurt. — David Estes

It is difficult to go on the next night after you receive a sandbagging. — Richard O'Brien

Whether one likes it or not, the screen is a profoundly important source of imagery and storytelling for this generation. For me, books remain a stunning place to tell stories, but the screen has a place. — Graeme Base